The productivity boost from working remotely does not come from replacing all those in-office meetings with a bunch of video calls. It comes from turning all those meetings into write-ups instead. Status updates, pitches, ideas. Write. Them. Down.

“We’re gonna break it up and somehow find the engineering discipline we never had in the first place.“ changelog.com/posts/monolith…

Walked toward a group of 6 kids, no school, hand in hand. Chaos! They’re not taking this virus distance thing seriously! Upon closer inspection, they were sharing hand sanitizer. Dispensed some for me and wished me well

1. One big trap in moving to #remote work is it forces you to notice team behavior that is dysfunctional that you never noticed before. The trap is to blame it on being remote - but in truth the issues were there all along. They're just harder to ignore now.

While this is a backend observation, I worry it's happened on the frontend too

if you understand a bug, you can fix it

Here's the entire interview with @kimlatricejones and David Jones Media. Take a second to watch the whole thing because she makes even greater points throughout the entire interview than she does in the viral clip that is circulating. Her Monopoly comparison is spot on.

📝 Lessons learned today: As a Software engineer, learning how to introduce yourself and communicating what you do clearly can make a lot of difference in your career. If you ever need to talk about yourself via DM or email, here are 4 tips I discovered: 👇🏼 Thread

Shout out to everyone whose Tuesday consists of all of their rescheduled Monday meetings plus all their normal Tuesday meetings.

That's some reverse engineering I can get with nytimes.com/2020/10/06/art…

Happy November! New podcast episode out today with Andrew Gallant, creator of ripgrep, the lightning-fast ⚡️ command-line search tool that also powers search in VS Code! about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/andrew…

This holiday, I’m gonna stay home in my trash can and avoid people.

On essential and accidental complexity: nearly every prediction Brooks made was wrong. This was inevitable because the concepts, as defined by Brooks, are, if not meaningless, pretty much impossible to reasonably use in practice. danluu.com/essential-comp…

"I love remote work but I miss the serendipitous moments in the office when I caught up with a coworker while getting coffee and had a breakthrough." Okay, let's talk about this. Starting with: Those weren't truly serendipitous moments 👇

Which generation controls the senate? Chart wcd.fyi/features/senat…

Users who use assistive technologies are a stress test for whether our apps run on the many different ways that people interact with the web content, and the future of devices that don't even exist yet.

I get so excited when a bug reveals a big gap in my understanding. I get to learn something new! And I have a practical way to test if I actually learned it (try to fix the bug!). I think it's my favourite part of programming.

While I wait for the GPU to churn through 2*26^11 possibilities, a brief recap of how we got here. It started when I noticed this bit of code in the GitHub Copilot Visual Studio Code extension that detects naughty words in either the prompt or the suggestions.

The Tyranny of the Marginal User nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-…

Open source as selfishness: so I never have to reimplement the solution again simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/24/se…